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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fallen asleep. Said Vishinsky with heavy sarcasm: "I wish the distinguished Syrian delegate the best of health. I beg his pardon for disturbing him. I want him to hear me. I hope he does hear me. I do not know what measures will have to be taken in order to make sure that he will hear me . . ." El Khouri finally woke up. What Vishinsky had wanted him to hear was hardly worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Of Good Faith | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Rather than order Vishinsky to walk out of the Council altogether (as Gromyko had been ordered to do over the Iran issue), Russia had decided that he was simply not to take part in the debate on Berlin. Next day, U.N. saw an incredible spectacle: a silent Vishinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Of Good Faith | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Order. Husky, slim-waisted Lawyer Carlos Prío might be just the man to bring about a change after four years of his predecessor's austerity. Socially popular, Prío always worked hard & long before setting out with his wife Mary for an evening of parties. Unlike high-minded Grau, who refused to believe that his appointees might graft and soldier on the job, Prío harbored no such illusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Teacher & Pupil | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Under the indulgent Grau, 100 revolutionary gang murders have passed unpunished since 1944. Prío, who showed his mettle last year by breaking Communist control of Cuban labor, has assured Cubans that he intends to bring in law and administrative order. "The limits of anarchy," he said last week before his inauguration, "have been reached under the present government. I have no intention of beginning mine in the same condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Teacher & Pupil | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...violators were four Frenchmen accused (and convicted in absentia by drumhead courts) of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. The four were small fry compared with Count Jacques Duge de Bernonville (TIME, Sept. 20), who was still battling against a deportation order in Montreal courts last week. But they were guilty of the same offense against Canada's laws: entering the country illegally, on false passports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: A Wink & a Nod | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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